PIDGINISING Antonyms

• the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it

• the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)

• foster the growth of

• prepare for crops

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• raise from a lower to a higher position

• raise in rank or condition

• make better or improve in quality

• make wealthy or richer

• a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors

• a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc.

• sharpen with a hone

• make perfect or complete

• being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish

• a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

• without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

• precisely accurate or exact

• make perfect or complete

• a worldly-wise person

• make less natural or innocent

• practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive

• alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

• make more complex or refined